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PEACH FACED LOVE
BIRDS
Our beautiful Peach
Faced lovebirds are pint-sized bundles of
joy. They have the full personality of
parrots while being easy to house because
of their size. My birds are little
clowns, playing for hours at a time. They
love to hang from toys, spin them around,
and dance on your shoulder. We have had
to watch out buttons! They love to pull
them off our clothes! Such loving little
birds: they love to snuggle and preen.
Many people believe
lovebirds must be kept in pairs. This is
simply not true. A single lovebird makes
a better pet because it bonds to you
rather than to another lovebird. While it
is easy to keep a pair of lovebirds tame,
if you plan on spending lots of time with
your bird you can keep it alone. However,
if you work long hours and don't think
you'll have a lot of time for your love
bird, we recommend you get him a
companion. This will keep your lovebirds
happy and prevent boredom. It is
important to realize that while lovebirds
are a small parrot, they have the
intelligence and abilities of some of the
largest parrots.
They never stop
amazing me with their ability to escape
their own cages. I have to put copper
wire on the cage doors to keep them in,
and sometimes they figure out how to
untwist the wire and open the door!
Lovebirds will
sometimes try to become the little bosses
of the household. I recommend using the
same type of ‘gentle dominance
training’ that is used for larger
parrots.
Are you looking for
a bird that you can teach to talk?
Lovebirds can learn to mimic sounds and
speech on occasion. However, I don't
recommend that you buy any species of
bird only because of the expectation that
it will speak; even the famous African
Greys sometimes don't learn to speak
talk. So, if that is your only reason for
buying a bird, I’d seriously urge
you to reconsider as the bird could end
up abandoned because of your own
disappointment.
In my opinion, love
birds and parrots both make great pets
even if they never utter a word. We have
both in our home. The lovebirds chatter
away all day, never making a sound that
anyone can understand, except as being
simply ‘noisy chatter.’
However, our Double Yellow Head parrot
makes up for it; his vocabulary is very
long, extensive and he is constantly
talking.
If you decide to
breed love birds just remember they are
prolific breeders. You may soon, as we
did, find our home over run with
lovebirds! And, as a word of caution,
“do not” put bark chips in the
nest of the baby birds. Though the odor
is pleasant to humans, it is too strong
for baby lovebirds. I must admit I
learned the hard way and had casualties
on my hands! Paper is the best thing to
put in the nest along with some alfalfa.
Do not get powdered alfalfa, rather dried
alfalfa blades. If you decide to use
paper, do cut the paper in long strips
and put it beside the nest. Mama will
take it into the nest. And, remember if
mama snaps at you she is only protecting
her nest!
My favorite lovebird
is Lucky, so named as it was our first
clutch and she was the only one, of six,
that survived when I put the bark chips
in the nest.
We do not have an
aviary breeder, rather, our lovebirds are
paired off in separate cages. The best
way to tame babies quickly is to remove
the babies from the next when they are
about two weeks old and hand feed them.
This way, the birds get the best of both
worlds: the immunity conferred from their
parents and the tameness that comes from
being handled by humans.
Our lovebirds are
abundance weaned so that they are happy,
well-adjusted birds. We feed them
pellets, a good seed mix, alfalfa,
wheatgrass, quinoa, sprouted beans, and
other veggies and fruits. And, oh yes!
Lovebirds love to not only eat grapes,
but to toss them around also. In short,
lovebirds love playing. They keep
us entertained for hours.If you decide to
get a lovebird for a pet, you will have
made an excellent choice!
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